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Patrick of Dunbar

Male Abt 1242 - 1308  (~ 66 years)


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  • Name Patrick of Dunbar 
    Birth Abt 1242  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 10 Oct 1308  [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Person ID I27330  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of TWK
    Last Modified 25 Sep 2020 

    Father Patrick of Dunbar,   b. Abt 1213   d. 24 Aug 1289, Whittingham, East Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Mother Cecily fitz John 
    Marriage Bef 1242  [2, 4
    Family ID F16316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Marjory Comyn 
    Marriage Bef 1283  [1
    Children 
    +1. Alexander Dunbar
    Family ID F16317  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Earl of Dunbar. Earl of March.

      "He was one of the competitors for the Crown of Scotland, lodging his petition 3 Aug. 1291, at Berwick, in right of his great-grandmother, the Countess Ada, [illegit.] da. of King William as abovenamed. This claim he soon withdrew, swearing fealty to Edward I on 25 Mar. 1296, and taking the English side when hostilities began that year. In 1298 he was the King's Lieutenant for Scotland, and in 1300 was with his son Patrick at the siege of Carlaverock." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

  • Sources 
    1. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    2. [S802] Andrew B. W. MacEwen, "A Clarification of the Dunbar Pedigree." The Genealogist 9:229, Fall 1998.

    3. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.

    4. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    5. [S800] The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of That Kingdom. Ed. James Balfour Paul. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914.

    6. [S802] Andrew B. W. MacEwen, "A Clarification of the Dunbar Pedigree." The Genealogist 9:229, Fall 1998., year only.

    7. [S4445] Andrew B. W. MacEwen, "Seven Scottish Countesses, A Miscellany: III. Cristina de Brus, Countess of Dunbar." The Genealogist 17:223, Fall 2003., year only.